University of California Press
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You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You’re Innocent
$29.95 Add to cartSurviving prison as an innocent person is a surreal nightmare no one wants to think about. But it can happen to you.
Justin Brooks has spent his career freeing innocent people from prison. With You- Author: Brooks, Justin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 4, 2023
- ISBN10: 0520386833
- Language: English
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The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How to Build an Atomic Bomb, Updated with a New Introduction by Richard Rhodes
$17.95 Read moreMore than seventy years ago, American forces exploded the first atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, causing great physical and human destruction. The young scientists at L… [more below]
- Author: Serber, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0520344170
- Language: English
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The Land of Open Graves: Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail Volume 36
$37.43 Add to cartIn this gripping and provocative “ethnography of death,” anthropologist and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow Jason De Le n sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time–the human cons… [more below]
- Series: California Public Anthropology #36
- Author: de Leon, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 23 2015
- ISBN10: 520282752
- Language: English
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Amazing Grace: A Cultural History of the Beloved Hymn
$19.95 Add to cart“A compelling story of a hymn rescued from the horror of slavery . . . in the author’s hands, ‘Amazing Grace’ lands firmly on the right side of history.”―TLS
Journey through the history of “Amaz- Author: Walvin, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: 31-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 0520391829
- Language: English
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Tending the Wild: Native American Knowledge and the Management of California’s Natural Resources
$34.95 Add to cartA complex look at California Native ecological practices as a model for environmental sustainability and conservation.
John Muir was an early proponent of a view we still hold today–that much of Ca- Author: Anderson, M. Kat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 558
- Publish Date: 10-Oct-13
- ISBN10: 0520280431
- Language: English
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Vintage Crime: A Short History of Wine Fraud
$29.95 Add to cart“This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences.”–New York Times, Best Wine Book
- Author: Gibb, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0520385934
- Language: English
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Dictee
$18.95 Add to cartNewly restored, this version of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s masterpiece honors the author’s original intentions and vision for the book. Originally published in 1982, Dictee is a classic of modern Asian A
- Author: Cha, Theresa Hak Kyung
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0520390482
- Language: English
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The New Crusades: Islamophobia and the Global War on Muslims
$26.95 Add to cart“The New Crusades is an intersectional milestone. It lucidly illustrates how converging systems of subordination, power, and violence related to Islamophobia are experienced across the globe.”–Kimber
- Author: Beydoun, Khaled A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0520356306
- Language: English
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Great Kingdoms of Africa
$34.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking, sweeping overview of the great kingdoms in African history and their legacies, written by world-leading experts.
This is the first book for nonspecialists to explore the great preco- Author: Parker, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0520395670
- Language: English
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Sea Change: An Atlas of Islands in a Rising Ocean
$34.95 Add to cart“A stunning atlas of the present and future.”–Rebecca Solnit, author of several books including Infinite Cities: A Trilogy of Atlases–San Francisco, New Orleans, New York
“An impassioned plea to sa- Author: Gerhardt, Christina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 0520304829
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety: How to Keep Your Cool on a Warming Planet
$21.18 Add to cartGen Z’s first “existential toolkit” for combating eco-guilt and burnout while advocating for climate justice.
A youth movement is reenergizing global environmental activism. The “climate generation”-- Author: Ray, Sarah Jaquette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 21 2020
- ISBN10: 520343301
- Language: English
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We Are the Land: A History of Native California
$24.95 Add to cart“A Native American rejoinder to Richard White and Jesse Amble White‘s California Exposures.“–Kirkus Reviews
Before there was such a thing as “Cal
Rewriting the history of California as Indigenous.- Author: Akins, Damon B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 29, 2022
- ISBN10: 0520280504
- Language: English
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King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution
$58.25 Add to cartBill Russell was not the first African American to play professional basketball, but he was its first black superstar. From the moment he stepped onto the court of the Boston Garden in 1956, Russell b
- Author: Goudsouzian, Aram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01, 2010
- ISBN10: 0520269799
- Language: English
